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In Reply to: Processor "defectivity" posted by dammajor@hotmail.com on September 20, 2009 at 13:54:02:
one of the things that drives me crazy is video and audio not synched ("lip-sync"). You are pretty much guaranteed to have this with HDMI video used with non-HDMI audio. You can manually adjust the audio delay usually, but it's something you'll continually jigger with as the source (TV or disc) changes. Many people don't get bothered by this though, until it becomes extreme, but I do... HDMI A/V eliminates this problem.
Now is a great time of year to get the "old" HDMI AVRs really cheap. Maybe one with preamp outputs so you could use your own amps.
As for reliability, these AVRs have so much stuff in them... I have an "AVR" that must be more than 15 years old, back when surround sound was Dolby Surround. It's been on 24/7 for over a decade and nary a glitch. The unit that replaced it (at 3X the cost) has needed some minor internal attention (nothing I couldn't handle), and the unit that replaced that (at 3X+ again the cost) has needed similar (both are still working perfectly now though). Each generation is hugely more complicated, that last one looks more like a computer inside, with big boards plugged into kind of a heavy-duty motherboard. My latest AVR, my first HDMI one, cost maybe 40% of the previous unit. It *is* a computer inside. I do not use the amps. It had a minor problem within months of purchase, which was a loose connector inside (tough to find) that prevented an internet connection (to update the firmware). None of my purely analog gear has ever broken in the 37 years I've been into "hifi", my very first (1972) receiver still works fine. So the moral of this long story is probably obvious: more complicated gear is more likely to have a problem, especially when it's newish.
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- Besides what others said... - cfraser 12:29:37 09/26/09 (0)
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